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Living Blues (p.62) - "[T]his release offers fine moments. Willis's take on Sonny Boy Williamson's classic 'Don't Start Me To Talking' is a delightful romp..."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.57) - "Wilson's voice has lost none of its youthful freshness....It's the subtle flavorings and almost imperceptible fillips that elevate this set above the ordinary..."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.54) - "Two Howlin' Wolf classics -- 'Built For Comfort' and 'Howlin' For My Darling' -- work surprisingly well as vehicles for a woman and feature a Chicago-style blues band, complete with harmonica and a guitar player who brings Hubert Sumlin to mind."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.62) - "Easley's resonant baritone is graced with a distinctive deep-chested resonance..."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.62) - "Blake has always mixed his blues with soul....Thus, we get straightforward slow blues featuring Marshall's guitar leads on 'She Works The Night Shift'..."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.48) - "Ron Johnson supplies some gritty but masterful guitar work throughout to complement Sims' deeply soulful voice."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.51) - "'I Want What I Need & Want' aggressively mixes hard-funk bass, JB-like guitar, and horn lines with hard-hitting percussion; 'Last Minute' likewise fuses soul-era basics with modernist embellishments..."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.54) - "Johnson's soprano voice is appealingly tender, but there's fire smoldering within it."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.59) - "'Something You Got' is a mid-tempo workout with lyrics that perfectly complement the sense of play evoked by the jaunty cadence and the aural brilliance of the backing."12.8673
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Living Blues (p.43) - "'After She's Gone,' a 3/4 soul ballad in the great tradition finds Carr at her strongest and most melodically sure as she meets the challenge of the extended phrases with ease."12.8673
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NME (Magazine) (10/18/97, p.58) - 10 (out of 10) - "...THE PET SOUNDS SESSIONS is thunderously anal....a thoroughly bewitching experience....This, then, is PET SOUNDS: The Autopsy; each song's vital components carved out and slapped on the slab for inspection....A masterpiece..."9.618656
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Q (10/99, p.157) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...without quite trawling the really deep emotional waters of his earlier career, still kept faith with those lonely sounding places where the sun only rarely shines."Mojo (Publisher) (12/99, p.130) - "...mixes [Al] Green's silkiness with [Wilson] Pickett grit in a mid-tempo testifyer and ends up sounding like no one else. Have mercy, there are two CDs of this stuff here..."9.403181
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JazzTimes (p.95) - "The CD's nine meditative and often cinematic tracks offer a worldview where the various native rhythms are melding into one another, and the phenomenon is something to marvel at and ponder..."Dirty Linen (p.85) - "[S]he displays a remarkable maturity....[The instruments] give these melodic pieces a dreamy and visionary spaciousness."1.84768
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Q (1/03, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Cooke was one of soul music's first and most inspirational voices..."Uncut (2/03, p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Prime gospel, many of these tracks are classics....This is an historic anthology..."Living Blues (5/03, p.89) - "...Listening to him forge a style here, it's hard not to conclude that all his work clearly represents one long, luscious continuum in American music..."Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.73) - Ranked #6 in Mojo's "Best Box Sets & Compilations of 2002"Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.104) - "...The three CDs here work on every level. Ordered chronologically, the tracks form a picture of the evolution of American gospel music in the '50s; shadow the growth of the civil rights movement; and tell the story of Cooke's artistic growth..."1.760681
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Dirty Linen (pp.50-1) - "There is plenty of scintillating music....Fans of the classic Western swing era will want these CDs, which feature the music of a wonderful band."1.589503
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JazzTimes (p.35) - Ranked #15 in JazzTimes' "Top 50 CDs of 2009" -- "[T]he quartet's rare gig coheres like of a band that's been road-tested."1.554704
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JazzTimes (p.52) - "[I]t's tight and as in-the-pocket as they come: It simply cooks."JazzTimes (p.36) - Ranked #19 in JazzTimes' "Top 50 CDs of 2009."1.554704
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Living Blues (1-2/00, pp.65-6) - "...Wilson's hard-as-nails fret work hints at why his music has to be seen to be fully appreciated....from the earliest days of his successful revival run ON MY WAY is as good as most of his current CDs..."1.519904
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JazzTimes (p.64) - "Locke breaks out of the gate breathing fire on his own line, 'Pharoah Joy' dedicated to tenorist Sanders and his Nigerian Highlife explorations of the early '80s."JazzTimes (p.36) - Ranked #46 in JazzTimes' "Top 50 CDs of 2009."1.519904
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[E]ssential....[T]hese two fantastic CDs showcase the wonderful invention that informed Pigbag's music."Uncut (magazine) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Giggling Mood' showcases Jamie Johnstone's most frantic choppy guitar work."1.485104
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Dirty Linen (p.53) - "This album is somewhat of a departure in musical style from Harmer's first two more pop-oriented CDs, but its richer, rootsier, and ultimately, more satisfying."Mojo (Publisher) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a total immersion experience in a blissful synergy of one superb singer-songwriter and her uncannily sympathetic band."1.485104
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Entertainment Weekly (5/25/01, p.81) - "...Among the extras for diehards to gorge on: a CD's worth of unreleased live outtakes from 1972's ROCK OF AGES, including 4 songs with Bob Dylan." - Rating: AQ (7/01, p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Slicker and more contemporary [than previous releases]...a farewell to their heyday, bolstered by a superbly haphazard cover of 'Lovin' You Is Sweeter Than Ever'..."Down Beat (10/01, p.66) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...They put across their best songs and a few covers with touches of ecstasy..."Mojo (Publisher) (6/01, p.123) - "...A radically restructred live album, their past glories terrifically enhanced by the presence of Allen Toussaint's crack horn section...Now with an additional 10 tracks, the entire concert is presented as it was..."1.432905
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Dirty Linen (pp.50-1) - "There is plenty of scintillating music....Fans of the classic Western swing era will want these CDs, which feature the music of a wonderful band."1.425615
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Down Beat (6/00, p.79) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Allows for 'conversational' interactions among the horns....quirky....Fuji's solos tend to be brief, mysterious and even cryptic....JO should awaken interest in [her] piano-focused CDs..."1.356016
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Down Beat (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "FRESH SPIN boasts a warmer sound, in part owing to the big, bracing bite of Mills' tenor and partly due to a bottoms-up approach to the CD's sound mix."1.356016
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"...Wonderful performances....Refreshingly, this is a film which stretches the definition of family comedy..." Sight and Sound "...The script slices under the skin of this bird, pricking the festering tension that surfaces at any clan gathering..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...An affectionately drawn, multigenerational portrait of an eccentric family....[With] a saucy, shrewdly selected cast..." Variety0.2533403
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